Benjamin Schoendorff is the erstwhile editor of the Socialist Alternatives magazine, for which a bright-eyed young Keir Starmer used to write. The pair were close, in a former life. It looks like their relationship has soured in recent years…
“I really don’t get a sense of intellectual evolution, for lack of a better word, which to me means the guy is actually an empty suit. I don’t think he is a master, I think he’s just a puppet, saying whatever he’s been told to say, and it’s going to be the worst you’ve ever seen … Every day it seems he is able to insult our intelligence and morals in a new way which is beyond comprehension.”
There’s a Director of Strategy vacancy now, if Benjamin reckons he can turn things around…
(Hat-tip: Lord Ashcroft, Red Flag)